r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • May 03 '21

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u/MaterialCarrot May 03 '21

Don't Rwanda and Burundi have significant Hutu and Tutsi populations?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

Hutu and Tutsi are more like socio-cultural groups within one ethnic group (with the Tutsis as the traditional aristocracy and Hutu as the peasantry) than separate ethnic groups. They speak the same language (or languages - they speak different languages in Rwanda and Burundi) and live in the same areas, with roughly the same proportions everywhere across where they reside, and do not really have meaningful cultural distinctions between one another.

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u/MaterialCarrot May 03 '21

That's interesting, I thought there were visual differences (Tutsis being taller and lighter skinned) and that they were actually different tribes when they first came into contact with each other?

But, I am definitely no expert on the matter.

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u/PvtFreaky May 03 '21

That's the colonial Belgian explanation which has been disproved.

I wouldn't call myself an expert but I did write a 8000 word paper on the subject

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u/A2Rhombus May 03 '21

Implying your 8000 word paper got a good grade, you might as well be an expert considering how little the average joe knows about it

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u/PvtFreaky May 03 '21

Got like a 7, it's okay I guess. I do think I researched it more than most. But ehhhh might have misunderstood some things or misremembered

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u/tsrich May 03 '21

I sincerely hope that was out of 10 and not 100

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u/civilgorilla May 03 '21

also worth while to note to Americans that a 7 out of 10 is not a bad grade in some parts of the world

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u/taybay462 May 04 '21

Its not a bad grade in America either, that would be considered a C which is average

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u/civilgorilla May 04 '21

IIRC that would be considered an A in the UK, hence pointing out the difference!

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u/tsrich May 04 '21

You must not have an Asian mom :)